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Wohlstand für AlleEp. 269: Wie Dating und Heiratsmarkt heute funktionierenWohlstand für Alle
Während das romantische Ideal besagt, dass sich "Herz zu Herzen findet", zeigt sich in der Realität häufig: Geld heiratet Geld. Wir diskutieren, wie die assortative Partnerwahl – also die Tendenz, Partner aus der gleichen Einkommens- oder Bildungsschicht zu wählen – zur wachsenden Ungleichheit beiträgt.
Ein weiteres Thema sind die Auswirkungen von Dating-Apps auf den Heiratsmarkt. Studien zeigen, dass über die Hälfte der Ehen heutzutage durch Apps zustande kommen, was den Trend zur "Paarung unter Gleichen" verstärkt. Hier spielen vor allem Bildung, Einkommen und soziale Klasse eine Rolle. Die wachsenden Optionen führen aber nich...
2024-10-0246 min
Ufahamu AfricaEp. 129: Looking back on Ufahamu Africa in 2021 and ahead to 2022Welcome back to a new year of Ufahamu Africa! Kim and Rachel talk about some of your and our favorite episodes of 2021, the big events that affected Africa in 2021, and more! Books, Links, & ArticlesUfahamu Africa on Foreign Policy PlaylistThe Lawfare Podcast: Making Sense of the Crisis in Ethiopia"The Enemy in Her Imagination: A Fable" by Elleni Centime Zeleke"Take the Soul from Everyone, and the Liberty of All" by Rama Salla Dieng The West Africa Autocratization Tracker by Expédit Ologou Senegal’s violent protests reveal that its long-stable democracy is fragil...
2022-01-0830 min
Ufahamu AfricaEp. 126: Season 5 FinaleKim and Rachel close up Season 5 highlighting some of the major events on the continent and enjoying hearing some good news from friends of the podcast. Have a listen and you'll hear Grieve Chelwa, Anne Meng, TJ Tallie, Hilary Matfess, Judd Devermont, and Laura Smith share some great updates so we can celebrate some wins as we look back on this challenging year. Find the books, links, and articles we mentioned in this episode on our website, ufahamuafrica.com.
2021-08-2133 min
Say More on ThatEpisode 13: Noor Ali on 'the right mug' and narratives of Muslim American Youth.Dr. Noor Ali is the principal at Al-Hamra Academy, Shrewsbury, MA and has been a veteran teacher of fifteen years in elementary and middle school grades. She is an assistant professor at Worcester State University and Arizona State University. Noor is actively engaged in efforts towards social justice, inter-faith dialogue, community networking, and youth development. She served as a Board Member on the Shrewsbury Youth and Family Services. Noor earned her Ed.D. in Curriculum, Teaching, Learning, and Leadership from Northeastern University. Inspired by social justice in education, her dissertation was titled Space Making and Voice Finding for the...
2021-05-2632 minSay More on ThatEpisode 12: John Taden on Electoral Petitions and Smooth LandingsJohn Taden is a doctoral candidate in Public Policy and Political Economy at the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. He also has a Master of Science in Social Data Analytics and Research from the same school and a Master's in Business Administration from the Texas A&M University, Commerce.
John was born and raised in Ghana where he had his Bachelor of Science from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
He regularly grants TV and radio interviews to TV and radio stations in...
2021-05-1232 minSay More on ThatEpisode 11: Julia Zulver on "High Risk Feminism" and SpellingDr Zulver is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. She is currently based at the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas at the UNAM in Mexico City (2020-2022). Her project — “High Risk Leadership in Latin America” — focuses on women’s leadership in the pursuit of gender justice in various violent contexts. She earned her DPhil in Sociology at the University of Oxford in 2018, where she studied how and why organisations of women mobilise in high risk contexts, actions which expose them to further danger. Her doctoral project focused on C...
2021-04-2828 min
Horns of a DilemmaGender and SecurityIn this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Doyle Hodges, executive editor of the Texas National Security Review, sits down with Hilary Matfess (a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University and a Peace Scholar Fellow at the United States Institute for Peace), and Robert Nagel (a postdoctoral research fellow at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace, and Security), to discuss gender in conflict and the issues surrounding women in the field of security.
2021-04-1642 minSay More on ThatEpisode Ten: Christine Slaughter on Racial Resilience and the Best Serif FontsChristine Marie Slaughter is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is expected to defend her dissertation in June 2021. Her dissertation, “No Strangers to Hardship”: African Americans, Inequality and the Politics of Resilience, develops a theory and measurement of “racial resilience”. Christine’s primary research interests include political behavior and political psychology, race and ethnicity politics, and poverty. The second stream of research specifically focuses on Black women voters and intersectionality. Christine’s dissertation is currently supported by the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2020), Institute of American Cultures and the Ralph J. Bun...
2021-04-1422 minSay More on That*FULL EPISODE* Episode Nine: Renée Marlin-Bennett on Chopped Liver and Mean MemesNot sure why anchor keeps cutting off the last 6 minutes of my uploads, but I'll work on it!
Professor Renée Marlin-Bennett researches global problems involving information and how it flows, borders, bodies, and power. From these points of departure, she ventures into international theory, pragmatism, international political sociology, and global political economy. Much of her previous work has explored the evolution of rules that order global practices as well as those that provide the basis for disorder. She has examined substantive areas such as trade, intellectual property, information, and privacy to examine h...
2021-04-0128 minSay More on ThatEpisode Nine: Renée Marlin-Bennett on Chopped Liver and Mean MemesProfessor Renée Marlin-Bennett researches global problems involving information and how it flows, borders, bodies, and power. From these points of departure, she ventures into international theory, pragmatism, international political sociology, and global political economy. Much of her previous work has explored the evolution of rules that order global practices as well as those that provide the basis for disorder. She has examined substantive areas such as trade, intellectual property, information, and privacy to examine how contestation, rhetorical frames, and path dependence contribute to development of global orders.
Her current research on global p...
2021-03-3122 minSay More on ThatEpisode Eight: Anwar Mhajne on Digital Colonialism, International Humanitarian Law in Cyberspace, and HummusAnwar Mhajne is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stonehill College. Her research focuses on Feminist International Relations and Security Studies; Democratization; Governance and Institutions; Civil Society and Activism; Political Islam; Middle East; Gender Politics; Social Movements; and Regime Change. Her work has been featured in The International Feminist Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Religion and Politics, Foreign Policy, The Conversation, Times of Israel, Haaretz, Middle East Eye, +972 Magazine, Quartz, The Defense Post, The Jerusalem Post, and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
2021-03-1715 minSay More on ThatEpisode Seven: Joe Young on Tortured Logic and Breakfast RitualsJoseph (Joe) Young
Professor, School of International Service and School of Public Affairs, American University
My research examines the causes and consequences of state and dissident violence. I’ve published peer-reviewed articles across academic disciplines, including political science, economics, criminology, and international studies. I’ve been invited to speak to organizations in the defense community and have consulted on a Department of Defense initiative focusing on countering violent extremism as well as done an impact evaluation of violence reduction programs in Colombia for USAID. The National Science Foundation and the National Consortium for the Study of T...
2021-03-0314 minSay More on That*FULL EPISODE* Episode Six: Gary Winslett on Cappuccinos and 'Competitiveness and Death' in international tradeApologies! It appears only half of our conversation uploaded originally. This is the full episode. Gary Winslett is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College. He did a postdoctoral fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence and received his Ph.D. from Boston College in 2016. He was the first in his family to attend college and graduated from the University of Florida in 2009. His first book, Competitiveness and Death: Trade and Politics in Cars, Beef, and Drugs, comes out in March. He enjoys skiing, hiking, and board games with his wife Becky and his daughter Adelaide.
2021-02-1834 minSay More on ThatEpisode Six: Gary Winslett on Cappuccinos and 'Competitiveness and Death' in international tradeGary Winslett is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College. He did a postdoctoral fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence and received his Ph.D. from Boston College in 2016. He was the first in his family to attend college and graduated from the University of Florida in 2009. His first book, Competitiveness and Death: Trade and Politics in Cars, Beef, and Drugs, comes out in March. He enjoys skiing, hiking, and board games with his wife Becky and his daughter Adelaide.
2021-02-1714 minSay More on ThatEpisode Five: Gabriella Gricius on the "Scramble for the Artic," traditional ecological knowledge, and planners.Gabriella Gricius is a Ph.D. Student and Graduate Teaching Assistant at Colorado State University in the subfields of International Relations, Environmental Policy, and Comparative Politics. She is also a Graduate Fellow at the North American and Arctic Security & Defence Network (NAADSN) with Trent University. Her research focuses on Arctic politics, critical security and decolonial theory as well as Russian foreign policy in the Arctic. She also writes for a variety of online publications including Foreign Policy, Global Security Review, the European Leadership Network, Responsible Statecraft, and Riddle Russia amongst many others. She is fluent in English and...
2021-02-0314 min
Ufahamu AfricaEp. 105: Repatriation of Museum Objects, Part 1This week, we are sharing expertise from Souleymane Bachir Diagne who spoke on a panel last October as part of "Repatriation of Museum Objects" for Cornell University's Institute for European Studies. Next week, we will be sharing the expertise of Cécile Fromont, another of the event's panelists, as part 2 of this episode.In the news, Kim and Rachel talk about recent events in Ethiopia and Niger, how food security affects us all, and the recent transfer of power in the United States.Books, Links, & ArticlesFemale Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa b...
2021-01-2350 minSay More on ThatEpisode Four: Calla Hummel (and her puppy!) on informal workers and passive voiceCalla Hummel is an assistant professor in the University of Miami’s Department of Political Science. She studies when and why informal workers organize and the impacts that the world’s 2 billion informal workers have on local and national politics. She is also tracking COVID-19 policy responses as the Bolivia team leader with the University of Miami's Observatory for the Containment of COVID-19 in the Americas.
Calla uses statistical, ethnographic, survey, computational, and formal methods. She conducts research with street vendor unions in La Paz, Bolivia and São Paulo, Brazil. Her research has been published in BJPS...
2021-01-2028 minSay More on ThatEpisode Three: Anna Meier on Terrorist Designation and TofuAnna Meier is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she is also a Law & Society graduate fellow with the University of Wisconsin Law School. She studies how governments construct the concept of "terrorism" and formulate national security policy in response. Her research has received support from the Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence at UW–Madison and the Wisconsin Project on International Relations, and is published or forthcoming in International Studies Quarterly, The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Political Science, Lawfare, Political Violence at a Glance, and The Washington Post. Anna is also an acti...
2021-01-0619 minSay More on ThatEpisode Two: Max Margulies and Conscription's Effect on Conflict InitiationDr. Max Margulies is the Director of Research and an Assistant
Professor at the Modern War Institute at West Point. He also serves as
the course director for the thesis and capstone programs in West
Point’s Defense and Strategic Studies program, which includes a
required course on research design. Prior to joining MWI, he was a
faculty member in West Point’s Department of Social Sciences, where he
taught classes on international affairs and served as Executive
Director of the Rupert H. Johnson Grand Stra...
2020-12-2319 minSay More on ThatEpisode One: Dr. Danielle Gilbert and the Oxygen of PublicityOn this Episode, we talk with Dr. Dani Gilbert about her article, "The Oxygen of Publicity," available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1057610X.2020.1792723
Dr. Gilbert is an Assistant Professor of Military & Strategic Studies at the United States Air Force Academy. Since 2015, she has served as a fellow with the Bridging the Gap Project, which supports scholars in contributing to public debates by producing and disseminating policy-relevant scholarship. You can follow her on Twitter, @_danigilbert.
2020-12-0922 minSay More on ThatIntroduction to "Say More on That"A podcast for academics doing policy-relevant research.
2020-12-0400 min
Conversation SixZachery Tyson Brown and Hilary MatfessZachery Tyson Brown and Hilary Matfess on why America needs a new strategic mindset.
2020-09-3006 min
Explain It to MeTrump's latest trade warEzra, Jane, and Matt talk about Trump's approach to China and what his critics get right and wrong.Links to resources discussed: “Making China Great Again” by Evan Osnos, The New Yorker“The past 3 wild days in Trump’s trade war with China, explained” by Matthew Yglesias, Vox“Trump’s puzzling trade war with China, sort of explained” by Matthew Yglesias, Vox“Why Elizabeth Warren is declaring war on an obscure trade policy” by Danielle Kurtzleben, Vox“Elizabeth Warren’s vision for changing America’s trade policy, explained” b...
2019-08-2757 min
Global Dispatches -- World News That MattersResearch Uncovers a Link Between the Cost of Getting Married and the Outbreak of Conflict About 75% of the world's population live in societies that practice of form of dowry payment. This is also known as brideprice and it is essentially wealth that a potential husband must pay to the family of his would-be wife. But in this way, brideprice acts as a kind of regressive flat tax that younger, and generally poorer men must pay to wealthier, older men. Hilary Matfess, a PHD candidate at Yale University, undertook a wide study of the impact of fluctuations in brideprice on broader issues related to conflict. She found that there is a positive correlation...
2019-08-2636 minExplain It to MeDoes America need trade deals?Yale's Hilary Matfess joins Matt to debate Elizabeth Warren's trade proposals, and the role of trade policy in progressive politics.Recommended reading:“The progressive case for free trade” by Hilary Matfess-------------------------------------------------------Join the Weeds Facebook group!News comes at you fast. Join us at the end of your day to understand it. Subscribe to Today, Explained Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2019-08-2356 min
Into AfricaDecoding the ContinentBig data is unlocking Africa’s complex problems. Olúseun Onígbińdé (BudgIT), Ariel Ben Yishay (AidData), and Hilary Matfess (Yale) share how data helps hold leaders to account, track foreign spending, and assess security threats. With Judd Devermont (CSIS) moderating, the panel also checks in on Nigeria ahead of its presidential election and on the rising insurgent threat in Mozambique.
2019-01-2327 minInto AfricaDecoding the ContinentBig data is unlocking Africa’s complex problems. Olúseun Onígbińdé (BudgIT), Ariel Ben Yishay (AidData), and Hilary Matfess (Yale) share how data helps hold leaders to account, track foreign spending, and assess security threats. With Judd Devermont (CSIS) moderating, the panel also checks in on Nigeria ahead of its presidential election and on the rising insurgent threat in Mozambique.
2019-01-2327 min
Talking TerrorBoko Haram Part 2: A Talking Terror SpecialIn this second part of the Boko Haram special episode John talks to Hilary Matfess about the role which women play in Boko Haram. It assesses their role within the group as well as as targets of Boko Haram. This discussion is largely based around her recent book 'Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses' published by Zed books.
2018-02-2134 min
New Books in African StudiesHilary Matfess, “Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses” (Zed Books, 2017)Today we talked with Hilary Matfess about her new book Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses, just recently published by Zed Books in 2017. Drawn from her extensive research and interviews from 2015 to 2017, Matfess’ book attempts to convey the myriad ways in which women have shaped the development and course of the Boko Haram insurgency. She attempts to debunk much of the conventional wisdom surrounding Boko Haram and women, most notably their presentation as victims lacking autonomy, and provides an insightful examination of these women who dominate much of Western perceptions of the African continent. Claiming th...
2017-12-1844 min
Ufahamu AfricaEp. 36: A conversation with Hilary Matfess on women and Boko HaramIn this week's episode, I chat with Hilary Matfess (@HilaryMatfess), a doctoral student in political science at Yale University, where she studies the intersection of conflict, governance, and gender. In our conversation, we talk about her new book, Women and the War on Boko Haram, which just came out this week.Absent our news round-up, check out the latest newsletter from This Week in Africa, catching you up on all that's happening on the continent right now.Find the books, links, and articles we mentioned in this episode on our website, ufahamuafrica.com.
2017-11-1933 min
World Politics ReviewAs Atrocities Mount, Nigeria’s Military Still Counts on Continued U.S. SupportIn this week’s Trend Lines podcast, WPR’s editor-in-chief, Judah Grunstein and senior editor, Frederick Deknatel, discuss what the consolidation of power by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the 19th Communist Party Congress means for China and the world. For the Report, Hilary Matfess talks with Peter Dörrie about why the U.S. should reconsider its growing security partnership with Nigeria’s military, which has been accused of human rights abuses and counterproductive tactics in its battle against Boko Haram. If you like what you hear on Trend Lines, as well as what you’ve...
2017-10-3040 min
odd programLadycast ep 35: You have the same number of hours in your day as Hilary Matfess"It's absolutely become the norm for me to be the youngest, and at times most female person in the room. And it's really intimidating. But you kind of just have to put your head down and accept that you have a right to be there, and that more women should have the right to be at that table."
This week, Hilary Matfess talks about being a young woman in traditionally masculine spaces, reporting in Sub-Saharan Africa, her early lupus diagnosis, and how she got her first book deal.
Hilary is a senior program officer at the Center for Democracy and...
2017-02-1235 min
The LoopcastWomen and Boko HaramHilary Matfess discusses women and Boko Haram.
Some of Hilary's work can be found below:
The Wives of Boko Haram: The women who willingly married militants
Joint article with Dr. Mia Bloom:
Women as Symbols and Swords in Boko Haram's Terror
'Bad Blood' (a report that Hilary mentioned in the talk).
2017-01-2151 minThe LoopcastNigeria and Boko HaramHilary Matfess discusses Boko Haram and the situation in Nigeria.
Listed below are some of Hilary's works on Boko Haram:
"The Boko Haram Insurgency, by the numbers"
"Boko Haram is not al-Qaeda"
Interactive map detailing Boko Haram attacks
2015-02-0241 min